Example Sentences

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Don't be shy, Mr Plue,' said she, and she up wid one ob her crutches and gub him a poke in de ribs dat made him grunt like a pig.

From Nature and Human Nature by Haliburton, Thomas Chandler

In de space ob anoder cable length dis chile he muss a gub up!”

From The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Reid, Mayne

You see I didn't steal it; dey gub it to me.

From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself by Jacobs, Harriet Ann

"Mars'r, hadn't Brudder Rhett better gub out the hymn before the service commence?"

From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)

Look at de ting dat hab gub us sich a frightnin.

From The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Reid, Mayne